There is nothing better than hearing from a reader who follows my thoughts and goals more closely than myself.
This week I received an email from a reader who informed me that she had been collecting some recent quotes on the blog for use in my pursuit to get published in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, a goal that I had written about last year and then forgotten.

So nice to have others keeping you on track.

Her suggestions include:

Brevity is the sou

Lost potential is difficult to measure and convenient to ignore.

I wrote term papers as a means of flirting with girls.

There is little room for hurt feelings in my most treasured friendships,

Ambiguity in the possible death of a character is an act of cowardice on the writer’s part.

I spend many of my evenings struggling to stay alive.

Don’t let anyone fool you. Death is hardest on the dead.

Passive-aggressive, indirect, and anonymous are three of my least favorite qualities in any form of communication.